Scott McClellan says Bush admitted to him that the President authorized the outing of an undercover CIA agent. An act that Bush’s own father, while he was President, had defined as treason.
And Bush did it in a time of war. During wartime, treason can be punishable by death.
So if McClellan is telling the truth (finally!), then George Bush, according to his own father’s definition, committed treason and could be sentenced to death for it.
But that’s not all. The agent he outed, Valerie Plame, was the head of a CIA front company that employed agents in several countries. By outing Plame, Bush destroyed the usefulness of that front company. Also, he both outed (negating their value to the CIA) and endangered the lives of dozens of CIA agents.
And Bush did all that just for political revenge against Valerie Plame’s husband, a former U.S. ambassador, for revealing that the Administration had lied about WMD. It has been well known for several years that that’s what happened, but no one could prove it.
Here is a video clip of McClellan telling the story at a Florida booksellers’ convention while touting his book.
